[Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough.
- Salford (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1916
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1916] / Medical Officer of Health, Salford County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![During the year 1916 the Medical Officers notified 157 cases, of which 16 were contacts (10*1 per cent). The number of contacts examined at the Dispensary was 363, and of these 16 were notified (4*4 per cent). Out of the 1,170 new cases examined 146 were notified, i.e., 12*5 per cent. It is a very encouraging feature that out of the 1,170 new cases 208, or 17-7 per cent, were sent for diagnosis by the medical practitioners of the Borougn. The diminished number of attendances at the Dis¬ pensary is accounted for by the absence on military duties of a large proportion of the young adult male population, also that milder cases and cases under observation are so^ occupied at munitions and other work that they have no time to attend at the Dispensar}^ Tuberculin has been used in treating suitable cases,, and was administered 1,425 times. There were during the year 337 deaths from phthisis, and 102 deaths from other tubercular diseases, giving a mortality rate of 16 and 5 respectively per 10,000 of the population. Nine hundred and thirty-three cases were notified during the year as compared with 1,023 during last year Of the 933 notifications, 745 were new cases and were re-notifications of cases already on the books. Of the new cases, 347 were notified by Genera Practitioners, 335 by Medical Officers of Hospitals am Dispensaries, and 63 by Poor Law Medical Officers. The mean age at death of patients dying during t] year from pulmonary phthisis was :—Males, 36 years](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30067224_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
